This is why you need a personal Collaborator Client!

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

If you have used Burp’s collaborator client for your Out-of-band testing, you know it’s awesome. Then why there is a need for a personal collaborator client? There are a few things that need to be addressed.

Companies have started to blacklist burp collaborator’s domain, making it difficult for OOB vulnerabilities detection. (Read here)
Collaborator client is not available for the community/free edition of BurpSuite.

This brings the need for having a personal collaborator client, with no to minimal investments, that will help us in the detection of any out-of-band/blind vulnerabilities, and I have linked an amazing cheatsheet below that will guide in OOB Exploitation. So, let’s get started. Below are the things required for our recipe to cook:

How does burp proxy work?

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What’s a proxy?#

A proxy acts as a gateway between you and the internet. The internet traffic flow back and forth if a proxy is setup in the middle. So, what is the need of proxy? There are several reasons organizations and individuals use proxies:

Control and monitor internet usage
Proxy servers can give better speed and bandwidth by caching websites
Proxy servers can also be setup along with VPNs to provide anonymity and better security

There are different types of proxies, but a specific type of proxy that we are going to talk about in this blog is interception proxy.

Pentesting on krash.dev

This is why you need a personal Collaborator Client!

How does burp proxy work?

What’s a proxy?#